Tropical storm Fiona
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Tuesday August 31, 2010 – As residents of Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla and other Leeward Islands continue to clean up from the flooding caused by Hurricane Earl over the past two days, they’ve been told to brace for another tropical storm which could pass by them as early as tomorrow.
Tropical Storm Fiona formed about 890 miles east of the Leeward Islands yesterday evening as Earl became a Category Four Hurricane and moved away from the US Virgin Islands, hours after drenching Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla and St Maarten.
Those countries, along with Montserrat, Saba and St Eustatius are all under a tropical storm watch, less than 24 hours after being removed from hurricane watch as a result of Earl’s passing. A tropical storm warning is in effect for St Martin and St Barthelemy.
“Interests elsewhere in the northern Leeward Islands should monitor the progress of Fiona,” the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said today, adding that additional watches or warnings may be required later today.
Fiona, with maximum sustained winds of about 40 miles per hour , was this morning about 500 miles east of the Leeward Islands was moving west-northwest near 24 miles per hour. A gradual turn toward the northwest with a decrease in forward speed is anticipated over the next two days.
“On the forecast track, the centre of Fiona is expected to pass near or northeast of the northern Leeward Islands early Wednesday,” the NHC advised.
Tropical storm conditions could spread over portions of the northern Leeward Islands tonight or early tomorrow.
Meantime, residents of the countries hit by Hurricane Earl, are still getting their houses in order.
In Antigua and Barbuda, there was no loss of life or serious injuries reported, or major damage to homes, but flooding was widespread. Eight people had to be rescued from a house in the south of the island, in a community where residents had ordered to evacuate, after they were trapped by flood waters.
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